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  • Speech 1: To Demonicus
  • Speech 2: To Nicocles
  • Speech 3: Nicocles or the Cyprians
  • Speech 4: Panegyricus
  • Speech 5: To Philip
  • Speech 6: Archidamus
  • Speech 7: Areopagiticus
  • Speech 8: On the Peace
  • Speech 9: Evagoras
  • Speech 10: Helen
  • Speech 11: Busiris
  • Speech 12: Panathenaicus
  • Speech 13: Against the Sophists
  • Speech 14: Plataicus
  • Speech 15: Antidosis
  • Speech 16: Concerning the Team of Horses
  • Speech 17: Trapeziticus
  • Speech 18: Against Callimachus
  • Speech 19: Aegineticus
  • Speech 20: Against Lochites
  • Speech 21: Against Euthynus
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    Isocrates, Speeches and Letters (ed. George Norlin)

    Panathenaicus

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. George Norlin) | English (ed. George Norlin)
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    [2] especially if they wish to have the advantage over their adversaries.1 No, I left all these to others and devoted my own efforts to giving advice on the true interests of Athens and of the rest of the Hellenes,2 writing in a style rich in many telling points, in contrasted and balanced phrases not a few,3 and in the other figures of speech which give brilliance to oratory4 and compel the approbation and applause of the audience.

    [3] Now, however, I have completely given up these devices of rhetoric.5 For I do not think it is becoming to the ninety-four years which I have lived nor, in general, to men whose hair has at length turned to grey6 to continue to speak in this fashion, but rather in the manner which every man, should he so desire, would hope to command, although no man can easily attain it without hard work and close application.

    [4] I have said this at the beginning in order that if the discourse which is now about to be presented to the public should appear to some to be more feeble7 than those which have been published in former years, they may not compare it in the matter of rhetorical variety and finish to my former compositions but may judge it in relation to the subject matter which I have deemed appropriate to the present occasion.

    1 Isocrates despised this kind of writing. See General Introduction.

    2 See General Introduction.

    3 The Gorgian figures, antithesis and parisosis, which Dionysius of Halicarnassus complained (Dion. Hal. Isoc. 14) were excessively used in the Isoc. 4.71-81.

    4 See General Introduction.

    5 An exaggeration. They abound in this discourse, but his earlier efforts were more ornate. Cf. Isoc. 5.27-28, and Isoc. 15.195.

    6 An echo of Plat. Apol. 17.

    7 Cf. same apology in Isoc. 5.149; Isoc. 15.9; Isoc. Letter 6.6.

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    Cross references from Sir Richard C. Jebb, The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos:
    introduction, 6 [Ancient Oratory a fine art.]

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    Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.
    OCLC: 17454675
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